Identified students include those who qualify for free meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are certified for free school meals without submitting a school
meal application because of their status as being in foster care, enrolled in Head Start, homeless, runaway, or migrant students.
Not exact matches
CEO allows schools to serve free breakfast and free lunch to all students when 40 percent or more of students are certified for free
meals without a paper
application, which includes students who are directly certified (through data matching) for free
meals because they live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), or the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), as well as children who are automatically eligible for free school
meals because of their status in foster care or Head Start, homeless, or migrant.
Because school districts using CEP no longer collect
meal applications at all schools, states have developed alternative data sources for assessing the poverty level of schools.
Because students approved for free
meals without an
application are a subset of students who would qualify for free or reduced - price school
meals if their families completed an
application, this approach is likely to lower the percentage of students considered low - income at all schools.